Yes, you're right as ever Nick. I've been ranting a lot this weekend because, since Thursday, the whole focus of the media has been on slagging Labour and Corbyn.

I posted something as a response to a friend but I think I'll put it here has well. The whole thing really frustrates me because, it seems people have really short memories.

For the past 20 odd years, Blairist Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have essentially passed power from one to the other and back again without much fundamentally changing for ordinary people. Blairist Labour were not a threat to the establishment and big tax avoiding business and, in power, the Lib Dems just acted like the Tories' second eleven.

Labour is then flooded with people sick to death of the expenses fiddling status quo and they elect a leader not made in the same mould as the rest. People begin to raise their sights, think maybe something different might be possible.

And Blairist Labour, the Tories, the Lib Dems, the establishment and tax avoiding big business wail and screech and scream and howl, increasingly louder and more hysterically: he's unelectable, he's shambolic, he's not a leader. Because the movement the man represents challenges their power sharing agreement, where they pass around the top jobs and the only people who really benefit are themselves.

So they're scratching and writhing and fighting, dirty, because their political lives are totally dependent on it. And some who supported him and wanted him, lower their sights again, say maybe a different world isn't possible, maybe this is all there is.

And the power sharers carry on cutting and privatising and destroying our NHS and slashing wages and raising rents and making jobs insecure and before we know it, our kids have worse life chances than their grandparents.

This is a long story but we can change the shit ending if we just raise our heads and stand our ground and make that other world possible.

I am currently waiting to see if my nomination for council has been accepted and I am going to fucking do this. This bullshit has been going on for long enough and I'm sick of being an armchair commentator. If anyone wants to join me in doing the bastards, feel free. xxxxxxx

Yes, you're right as ever Nick. I've been ranting a lot this weekend because, since Thursday, the whole focus of the media has been on slagging Labour and Corbyn.

I posted something as a response to a friend but I think I'll put it here has well. The whole thing really frustrates me because, it seems people have really short memories.

For the past 20 odd years, Blairist Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have essentially passed power from one to the other and back again without much fundamentally changing for ordinary people. Blairist Labour were not a threat to the establishment and big tax avoiding business and, in power, the Lib Dems just acted like the Tories' second eleven.

Labour is then flooded with people sick to death of the expenses fiddling status quo and they elect a leader not made in the same mould as the rest. People begin to raise their sights, think maybe something different might be possible.

And Blairist Labour, the Tories, the Lib Dems, the establishment and tax avoiding big business wail and screech and scream and howl, increasingly louder and more hysterically: he's unelectable, he's shambolic, he's not a leader. Because the movement the man represents challenges their power sharing agreement, where they pass around the top jobs and the only people who really benefit are themselves.

So they're scratching and writhing and fighting, dirty, because their political lives are totally dependent on it. And some who supported him and wanted him, lower their sights again, say maybe a different world isn't possible, maybe this is all there is.

And the power sharers carry on cutting and privatising and destroying our NHS and slashing wages and raising rents and making jobs insecure and before we know it, our kids have worse life chances than their grandparents.

This is a long story but we can change the shit ending if we just raise our heads and stand our ground and make that other world possible.

I am currently waiting to see if my nomination for council has been accepted and I am going to fucking do this. This bullshit has been going on for long enough and I'm sick of being an armchair commentator. If anyone wants to join me in doing the bastards, feel free. xxxxxxx

Marching with my boys along with 200,000+ others to protest about cuts to the NHS. The NHS saved my boy's life after he contracted pneumonia at three months old, when my mum had a devastating stroke and I watched them do everything they could to save my best friend. Nye Bevan said: "The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it." I think that time is now. x

Yes, you're right as ever Nick. I've been ranting a lot this weekend because, since Thursday, the whole focus of the media has been on slagging Labour and Corbyn.

I posted something as a response to a friend but I think I'll put it here has well. The whole thing really frustrates me because, it seems people have really short memories.

For the past 20 odd years, Blairist Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have essentially passed power from one to the other and back again without much fundamentally changing for ordinary people. Blairist Labour were not a threat to the establishment and big tax avoiding business and, in power, the Lib Dems just acted like the Tories' second eleven.

Labour is then flooded with people sick to death of the expenses fiddling status quo and they elect a leader not made in the same mould as the rest. People begin to raise their sights, think maybe something different might be possible.

And Blairist Labour, the Tories, the Lib Dems, the establishment and tax avoiding big business wail and screech and scream and howl, increasingly louder and more hysterically: he's unelectable, he's shambolic, he's not a leader. Because the movement the man represents challenges their power sharing agreement, where they pass around the top jobs and the only people who really benefit are themselves.

So they're scratching and writhing and fighting, dirty, because their political lives are totally dependent on it. And some who supported him and wanted him, lower their sights again, say maybe a different world isn't possible, maybe this is all there is.

And the power sharers carry on cutting and privatising and destroying our NHS and slashing wages and raising rents and making jobs insecure and before we know it, our kids have worse life chances than their grandparents.

This is a long story but we can change the shit ending if we just raise our heads and stand our ground and make that other world possible.

I am currently waiting to see if my nomination for council has been accepted and I am going to fucking do this. This bullshit has been going on for long enough and I'm sick of being an armchair commentator. If anyone wants to join me in doing the bastards, feel free. xxxxxxx

Good luck Helen, more power to your elbow. I love the way Mandelson et al assume the elitism that alienated Labour from their core electorate would a) work and b) isn't the reason so many people are pissed off with Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn could do some things differently but he is at least committed to a socialistic/democratic socialist party and its cause in ways that Mandy and Blair just don't get and don't see the point of. Corbyn's message is the right one and it would be better served by people like you than the tantrumists in the party and of course the biased media

The NHS is a classic example of something won not given by our Tory "betters" which the Blair goverment thrust further into privatisation and look where we are.

Three weeks ago my mum was prescribed a new medication for her dementia, by the hospital. Don't worry, they said, we'll have it delivered to you quickly. No need to go via the GP. After a week I called them. Ah, they said, you'll have to contact the GP about that..... I explained what they'd told us previously. No problem, they said, someone will call you about it tomorrow. A week later I was still waiting & rang them again. Oh yes, they said, your prescription will be with the pharmacy on Monday. Great. I rang the pharmacy & asked if I could collect it from my local branch. No problem, they said, we'll give you a ring when it's there, it'll only take a day. A week later I still hadn't heard anything & rang the local branch. Mmm, they said, we haven't received it, ring back tomorrow. I was visiting my mum later & found, purely by accident, that the new medication had been delivered to her! I rang the pharmacy. Oh yes, they said, it says here on the computer that you wanted it delivered to your local branch. Can't understand what went wrong. Terribly sorry.So, a really big thank you to all concerned for making life so much easier. I mean, it's not like my mum actually wants her dementia treated or anything.